Fallen Enchantress Legendary Heroes - Map Pack DLC Released

June 22nd, 2013, 15:22

Stardock's released a Map Pack DLC for Legendary Heroes. The DLC is being sold through Stardock and Steam. If you own the Fallen Enchantress Map Pack DLC you should receive the Legendary Heroes Map Pack DLC for free.

Play on maps custom designed by Stardock's artists and developers. The pack includes a new, hand-crafted map for every map size, plus new stamps to spice up random map generation. It also includes the full Anthys map, a gigantic map that contains the entire known world of Elemental (at least as of ~150 AC).

The 5 maps include:

• Clash - Play against a single opponent on a balanced map, or discover a ship and explore the nearby islands.
• Crucible - Four opponents with a common area between their starting positions, can you hold the center and take out your enemies?
• Dust Bowl - A dangerous map with few fertile positions. But the land isn't empty, hordes of monsters have claimed it.
• The Wildlands - 10 Wildlands on one map. Can any empire rise in a world ruled by monsters?
• Anthys - Play across the entire world of Elemental on this map that is over twice as large as the largest maps in FE: LH.

The Map Pack DLC is available to buy through Stardock, Steam, and other third parties distributors.

Looks like some of these maps are designed to reduce city spamming, which is still a big problem in this game IMOP, since it makes the middle/end game a drag to play out. FELH is a good game though (with some excellent RPG features and tactical combat) and these maps sound more interesting than the random generator that can produce some quite bland results.

In general, although I think FELH hits the mark in many ways, I do hope they will iterate it further, there's the makings of a tremendously addictive and replayable sandbox RPG in there - just move it a bit further away from the standard 4x gameplay tropes, which somewhat weigh it down.